Daniel Esty

August 2000- July 2001 INSEAD Visiting Professor, Fontainebleau, France

1.Administrative Law (U.S.): Professor Esty's work in this area examines the tension between the demonstrable need for structured international cooperation in a world of interdependence and the political strain that arises whenever policymaking authority is lodged in global institutions.

2. Center for Business & Environment (U.S.):The Center addresses environmental issues in the business context and the need for better management in response to society's environmental challenges.

3. Center for Environmental Law & Policy (U.S.): The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy seeks to advance fresh thinking and analytically rigorous approaches to environmental decisionmaking across disciplines, across sectors, and across boundaries.

4. Environmental Performance Measurement (U.S.):In collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University and the World Economic Forum, the project produces a periodically updated Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) that tracks 146 countries on 21 sustainability indicators and an Environmental Performance Index (EPI) that assesses 133 countries on key environmental policy outcomes using policy targets linked to the Millennium Development Goals. Institution: Joint Research Centre (Euro Comm), World Economic Forum. URL: http://www.yale.edu/epi

5. Environmental Studies in the Middle East (UAE): Professor Esty is working with the Environmental Agency of the United Arab Emirates as part of an effort to improve environmental data collection. The goal of the project is to promote environmental sustainability in Arab states.

6. Global Environmental Governance Project (U.S.): Revitalizing the international environmental regime and strengthening environmental cooperation in the face of global-scale threats; contributing to a more effective response to transboundary environmental harms through better policy analysis and dialogue.URL: http://www.yale.edu/gegdialogue

7. Environment and Economics(China, China/Taiwan, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Vietnam): Professor Esty researched the environmental impacts of the transition to a market economy, comparing the experience in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia with the experience in China, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Institution: Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

8. Environmental Sustainability Index(U.S.): Professor Esty's efforts in the realm of environmental performance measurement have centered on launching (with the World Economic Forum) an Environmental Sustainability Index.Institution: World Economic Forum, Joint Research Centre (Euro Comm) http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/es/esi/

9. Information Age and Environmental Protection (France): Professor Esty collaborated with INSEAD to write on environmental protection in the Information Age, continuing work on an environmental performance measurement and investigating global environmental governance. 10. Trade and the Environment (Mexico): Professor Esty is involved in ongoing research examining trade and environmental issues in Latin America. He co-edited a volume from MIT Press, Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (2002).